Cartoon of Edward Holden, Managing Director of London City and Midland Bank

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Photograph of staff at the Midland Bank branch at Terminus Road, Eastbourne, UK
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Cartoon of Edward Holden from the 'Town Crier', a Birmingham journal. The cartoon is entitled 'A little bit off the top' and a man is shown looking over a fence at Holden, who is pictured in hunting attire holding a shotgun and a rabbit. The hunted rabbit is annotated as the 'City of Birmingham Bank' and there are a number of other rabbits on the ground, with the names of banks written on them including City Bank, Central London, Leeds and Bradford, Union, Manchester Joint Stock Bank, Derby Commercial, Leamington Priors and Coventry Union. These were all rent acquisitions that had recently helped transform Midland from a small Birmingham-based bank, into a key player on the UK banking scene. Holden was considered a mastermind in the art of deal-making.
Date
04 Feb 1899
HSBC Reference Number
UK 1375-0126
Archive Record Type
Image
Extent
1 drawing
Colour
Black and White
Language
English